I agree that illegals are breaking the law and taking advantage! But, let's do something that really solves the problem! Why not jail the guy who is hiring and making the big money on this deal! Otherwise, you are beating the dog, when dad blows the fart!

natetrees: I have been an immigrant in the USA for more than 50 years. Nobody ever told me that I had to carry my papers at all times. The USA has not been a police state so far! You started with an untruth and ended with bologna!

I have lived and worked in Mexico...legally. I do agree that people should be here legally also. However, some of the services you mentioned are available in Mexico just because they have a more worldly attitude!

Many bureaucrats speak English because of their proximity to the United States. (If you have ever been a tourist in Mexico, you know that many people speak English!) Many legal forms are printed in both languages. There are bilingual "American" schools in most major cities. Most countries including Mexico are taught much more about our culture than we know about theirs! We flew the American Flag and had fireworks on the Fourth of July...our neighbors enjoyed our celebrations. It is quite easy to get a driver's licence in Mexico (Actually too easy! We did not even go, just sent a friend with our picture!).

I do not know about healthcare in Mexico because I was never sick, but I broke my leg in Italy, and recieved totally free healthcare as a tourist.

We need to have a sensible discussion of the illegal immigrant problem. Like it or not, the world is shrinking and we need to make laws that really work.

All Europeans, Asians and anyone else you want to mention have not come here legally! And not only illegal Mexicans commit crimes here. You have to check out, Russian, Italian, Japanese mafias and Samoan gangs! They continue to bring in illegals and traffic in people.

Immigration laws should not just scapegoat easy targets! We need sensible laws that provide real protection for American!

The rich Republican that is benefitting from the illegal working in his business is not cleaning his own toilet or watching his own kids. This same rich Republican is also happy that you sheep can be agitated enough during an election year so that nothing of substances gets done to solve the problem and make him stop profiting from the situation.

The rich Republican businessman is not going to advertise that he is paying people under the table or hiring illegal household help! He is more likely to donate to some careeer politician who knows how to stir up the sheep just to get into the papers.

Just one example:
"Linda Chavez withdrew as President-elect George W. Bush's nominee for secretary of labor on Tuesday. She was under fire for providing housing and cash to an illegal immigrant who did chores in Chavez's home, although she denies she was paying for housework."
St. Petersberg Times, published January 10, 2001

Why should ex-convicts get government jobs that pay a good wage and come with benefits? Ex-convicts should prove their worth first and start from the bottom up. Let them do the jobs that the illegal aliens do now...most Americans do not want to do this low-paying back-breaking work anyway!

If the only two alternatives you see are (1) get a job by lying by omission or (2) become a doped-up drunken leach then you do not have drive or imagination. It is this lack of fortitude that got you in trouble in the first place.

But, tell that to my dead mother and my permanently injured dad. I just do not think that they are feeling paid back while their home-invading killers are doing time in prison. What adds insult to injury, while they are getting a free ride and medical care to which my dad is contributing through his tax dollars, my dad is spending his last dime on homecare to help him get dressed and eat!

I have a friend who is 60 years old. He and his parents were born in the United States. His grandparents were from Sicily. Every time he crosses the border to go the casino or dinner in Windsor, his car gets searched and he is questioned. A mutual friend of ours who is a retired customs worker said that he is under suspicion because he fits "the profile"...he looks Arabic. So he is guilty of having Phoenicians invading Sicily a couple thousand years ago!

It seems to me that this restaurant chain is limiting its customer base because they narrowly define what is considered attractive...Marilyn Monroe would probably not have qualified for a job. I guess a private business can enforce any stupid rule they want.
I am thinking of opening a restaurant called "Peckers". Sorry, this young lady need not apply!